Slavery ended in 1865.The list of occupations has been in use since 2000.The drop-down menu had to be coded by someone.And they're claiming that it's an accident, because it came straight off the list.

The Onion is prophetic:I'm guessing this is one of those situations where a bored IT person put it in to see if anyone would catch it, and intended to remove it before it went live, but didn't have the chance.

Y'all don't know much about DeKalb County, do you? It changed a LONG time ago; it's one of the country's biggest and richest buppie enclaves (blacks are the largest ethnic group at 53 percent, with a HUGE increase between 2000 and 2010 when they built all those bougie subdivisions in South DeKalb). This is just some tech wienie being a smartass.

Well, slavery still exists, here and elsewhere. It's unlikely that an illegal slave would be on any public registry for jury duty, or whatever. Just because it's illegal, doesn't make it an invalid data value.

To play Devil's Advocate: What if it is still on the books somewhere as a legal definition and must be an available option on such forms? Now that original statue needs revisiting instead of playing shoot the messenger.

Dekalb county recently had it's county CEO get suspended with a bunch of felony corruption counts, it's 2/3rds of the school board booted because they were incompetent, and several years ago had the outgoing sheriff murder the incoming sheriff.